PRIVACY POLICY

Decatur First United Methodist Church of Decatur, Georgia maintains this website, our Facebook page, and email correspondence as a service to its members and visitors. The Privacy Policy set forth below govern your use of this website, our Facebook page, and email correspondence and by using the website, our Facebook page, and email correspondence, you agree to be bound by them. Therefore, please read the Privacy Policy carefully before you use this website, our Facebook page, and email correspondence. If you do not agree with our Privacy Policy we kindly ask that you do not use this website, our Facebook page, and email correspondence.

Decatur First United Methodist Church of Decatur, Georgia reviews its Privacy Policy periodically and reserves the right, at its discretion, to modify or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time. This Privacy Policy applies to all web sites produced and maintained by Decatur First United Methodist Church of Decatur, Georgia.

If you want to communicate with us regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us at: 

Decatur First United Methodist Church
Attn: Webmaster
300 East Ponce de Leon Avenue
Decatur, GA 30030.

Log Files
Like most websites, this website logs your IP address, browser type, hits on particular pages and other general traffic information. This information is not linked to personally identifiable information and you remain anonymous.

Collection and Use of Personal Information
If you give us personal information, including for purposes of submitting a prayer concern, signing up for a newsletter or other email list, or contacting the church, we will not share that information with any third party, except to the extent necessary to complete transactions or if we believe that it is appropriate to share such information in order to comply with the law, to enforce or apply the Privacy Policy or Terms of Use or to protect the rights, property or safety of the website, any user of the site, Decatur First United Methodist Church of Decatur, Georgia or any of its trustees, officers, employees, volunteers or affiliated organizations.

We maintain reasonable and appropriate safeguards to ensure the security, integrity, and privacy of such information in our possession. Decatur First United Methodist Church of Decatur, Georgia does not sell, trade or rent personally identifiable information to third parties. We reserve the right to monitor traffic patterns and web site usage.

Cookies
A "cookie" is a file that is sent from a web server to your web browser and placed on your computer. When you initially visit the website we create a cookie for your computer and then use it to track your clicks as you go through the site. There is no personal information stored within the cookie itself and we cannot use cookies to retrieve personal information about you or from your computer. While your activity may be tracked while you are at our website, we do not use cookies to track your activity before or after you leave the site. We use cookies to keep your style preferences for the layout of the site, to maintain your login information until you log out of your session, and to maintain an active connection for our administrators on the database. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent that. Users should consult their browser help files for instructions on how to refuse cookies.

Posting of Personal Information
Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example, in a prayer concern, a form on our website, or through email - that information can be collected and used by others. By disclosing personal information online on any website, you may make that information available to others who will use it to send you unsolicited messages or for other purposes you may not desire or intend.

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
We love children and understand that it is very important to maintain their privacy. Therefore, our policy is that we will not knowingly collect, use or distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information from any child under 13 years old without verifiable parental consent and not knowingly allow any child under 13 years old to publicly post or distribute personally indentifiable information without verifiable parental consent. The COPPA act describes personal information as: (A) a first and last name; (B) a home or other physical address including street name and name of a city or town; (C) an e-mail address; (D) a telephone number; (E) a Social Security number; (F) any other identifier that the Federal Trade Commission determines permits the physical or online contacting of a specific individual; or (G) information concerning the child or the parents of that child that the website collects online from the child and combines with an identifier described in this paragraph. For more information, please see http://www.coppa.org.

This Policy does not restrict us by law of using images or video of your child as long as they are not identified in the media. If we would like to identify your child in a photo gallery, we will get consent from you before doing so.

If you do not want your child's image or name used, please let us know and we will make sure not to include that information on our website.